Alison Lowenstein

Alison Lowenstein is the author of City Weekends: The Greatest Escapes and Getaways in and Around NYC, City Kid New York: The Ultimate Guide for NYC Parents ages 4-12, and City Baby Brooklyn. She edited Gothamist Getaways and is a contributor at Tripsavvy and has written for The Washington Post, National Geographic Traveler, Departures, American Way, Arrive, Porthole, NY Daily News, Newsday, Lilith, Wild Blue Yonder, Time Out New York, Time Out New York Kids, Huffington Post, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Modern Loss, Kveller, The Hairpin, The Belladonna Comedy, Babble, OffMetro, AOLTravel, TravelandLesiure.com, Marieclaire.com, Parenting.com, New York Times’s City Room blog, and for many other publications and websites.